Thursday, April 17, 2014

American born Baker spent eight seasons in the minors with Tampa Bay and Milwaukee, reaching Triple-A level with both teams before playing with Vaqueros Laguna in the Mexican League in 2013. He continued his foreign travels by playing in Australia with the Perth Heat for the 2013-14 ABL season.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Leslie is a Melbourne youngster who played his second season with the Aces in the 2013-14 ABL season. He signed with the San Francisco Giants in 2012 and played with the Giants' Arizona Rookie League team in 2013.

It' not a very good photo, but the best I could do, and my first ever card of Leslie.

Monday, April 14, 2014

Greer is a Brisbane born player who spent the 2013-14 ABL season with the Brisbane Bandits. This season was his third in the ABL and was his most successful to date, playing 21 games with a batting average of .324 compared to a combined 18 games hitting .170 across the previous 2 seasons.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

I will often write up my blog entries several days beforehand and then schedule them to be posted. Our family is about to head back on it's first family holiday in 5 years to our homeland of Western Australia. Knowing this, I had started writing up and scheduling posts for the three weeks we would be away. I had planned to finalise up all these posts last weekend, however, something got in the way.

I am currently typing this up on my phone whilst lying in a hospital bed. What simply appeared to be a bad nights sleep last Thursday night, and a bad headache on Friday morning turned into a trip to the ER by Sunday morning, and a diagnosis on Tuesday of a very deadly form of septicemia (blood poisoning).

The blog posts remain undone, but I have been blessed to be still alive, and am expected to make an almost full recovery. The doctors are trying to ensure that pending me doing my part by not relapsing, I will be released from hospital the night before we are due to fly out on our holiday. I will need it, even if it will need to be a lot less energetic than originally planned as I continue to recuperate.

The upshot of all this is that most of the blog posts remain unfinished and will remain so until my return from holidays. There still will be a few posts that go up in April, but "normal" activity will resume in early May. There are still plenty more card images to go up, but sometimes it's the little things, like not dying, that get in the way.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Following his 2012-13 ABL Pitcher of the Year award, Anderson returned to the Blue Sox for his fourth ABL season in 2013-14. Whilst not having the same stellar success as his previous season, he still maintained a 5-4 winning record and an ERA of only 3.12

Thursday, April 3, 2014

The web has had several articles about Aussie former MLB player Harman following his gametime with the Southern Thunder against the Diamondbacks and Dodgers. There's speculation about him being offered a minor league contract. Harman hasn't played affiliated ball since 2009, so it's been a while between drinks. In the meantime, Harman has been playing in the ABL, with his 2013-14 season with the Melbourne Aces his third in the ABL.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

American import Grening returned for his third season with the Canberra Cavalry during the 2013-14 ABL season. In between the ABL seasons he spent 2013 playing for the Lancaster Barnstormers of the independent Atlantic League.

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This site contains baseball cards that I have created using my own designs and photos (unless otherwise noted). They are not licenced by the ABL, the respective teams or players. The card designs I have made are for entertainment purposes only. No copyright or intellectual property infringement is intended, only a desire to help promote Australian baseball. Upshot of this is that whilst I enjoy doing this for fun, these cards aren't for sale, and exist only as a part of my private collection.

Both the Australian Baseball League and the respective teams have started releasing their own baseball cards. I will try and document the information about these official cards as they are released, in addition to displaying my own custom made cards.